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...unexpected was the call on the handkerchiefs and sensibilities of the audience, that none of the following disquisitions met with the appreciation they deserved. We recall, however, with pleasure, the interesting facts brought forward by Miss Dorothy Simper, in her historical essay on the "Rise and Progress of Flirting...
COMMENCEMENT Parts have been assigned as follows: Hale, Swazey, Orations; McFarlane, Dissertation; Poor, Schofield, Patten, Disquisitions; Taussig, Essay...
...From a rejected Bowdoin Essay...
...Patten's essay on "The Character of Cicero, as presented by Middleton, Mommsen, Abcken, Bruckner, and Forsyth" showed careful study. The subject involved a large amount of reading, and this reading Mr. Patten had done faithfully. The essay was not strikingly original or interesting, but it was clear and substantial. It made no attempt at elaboration, and its style was excellent...
...Arthur Hale's essay on "Sir Philip Sidney as a Writer" was both interesting and original. It kept the audience in continual wonder as to what would come next. The impression which this fresh essay would make upon an examiner after he had waded through a dozen dull ones, may be easily imagined. With the exception of a certain mannerism, the style was simple and good; yet it may be seriously doubted whether such a dialogue as that in which the essay was written is well adapted to the treatment of such a subject. The "side-scenes" were irrelevant...